1. After a night of heavy rain, the water pools, stained brown by leaf mulch, in every dip, ditch and hollow on the common.
2. Bettany has suddenly gone off passion fruit, and at the bottom of the fruit bowl, there is one left, deeply wrinkled and very sweet and ripe.
3. I have Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes and I can feel the pieces of the Trojan war narrative clicking together as they never have before.